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Cousin Bette

Kathleen Raine; Honore De Balzac; Honore De Balzac

Synopsis:
“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac’s “huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.”

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 2002, Hardcover - 2002, Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 2001, Softcover - 1999